Crediton / Cretetone

There is an entry for Crediton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SS8300/crediton/] [accessed 12 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as having a baptismal font of the Norman period [NB: a typographical error in C&H has transposed the names as "Crediton Bishop" and "Cheriton", instead of the actual ones Cheriton Bishop and Crediton]. Noted and illustrated in Stabb (1908): "The font is Norman [...], a square top on a thick central shaft with smaller shafts at the corners, the carved oak cover was given by the Dart family in 1908." Noted and illustrated in Hussell (1910): "The basin of the font is [...] without doubt much older than this part of the tower [i.e., Transitional Norman]. It may be the basin of an olf Saxon font, used in the first or Saxon church at Crediton, for the design is much too simple and too lightly sunk for Norman work. Each side measures 2 feet by 4 inches at the top, the depth being one foot, and the material appears to be a fine grained grey granite--probably from Dartmoor. The stem and pillars are modern stone ones." Described in Clarke (1922): "The handsome marble bowl bearing round-topped arches is mounted on quasi-Romanesque pillars; the corner shafts with fluted capitals, the central shaft adorned with chevrons. A published postcard of this font describes it as Saxon!" [cf. supra]. Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Norman, of table-top type." The Crediton Parish web site [www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk] dates the font to ca. 1150; "its elaborate cover is by Caroe, and was presented in 1905." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with chevron patterns within panels; the supports are modern" [source given: Pevsner's South Devon, 1952].